Rags Ragland
Biography
Rags Ragland was a boxer, then a burlesque comedian and then a Broadway performer before ending up in Hollywood to repeat his stage role as the boisterous sailor in Panama Hattie (1942), in which Ann Sothern played on film the part that had been played on Broadway by Ethel Merman. Ragland, typecast as a good-natured oaf with a knack for fracturing the English language, had as his sole movie employer Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, in some two dozen of whose lighter vehicles he appeared, in the company of such MGM luminaries as Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. Date of Birth 23 August 1905, Louisville, Kentucky Date of Death 20 August 1946, Los Angeles, California (uremic poisoning)
Known For
Anchors Aweigh
Du Barry Was a Lady
The Hoodlum Saint
Whistling in Brooklyn
Panama Hattie
Girl Crazy
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood
Somewhere I'll Find You
All Movies (20)
- The Hoodlum Saint1946 · as Fishface
- Her Highness and the Bellboy1945 · as Albert Weever
- Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood1945 · as Self
- Anchors Aweigh1945 · as Police Sergeant
- The Canterville Ghost1944 · as Big Harry Waters
- Meet the People1944 · as Mr. Smith
- 3 Men in White1944 · as Hobart Genet
- Whistling in Brooklyn1943 · as Chester Conway
- Girl Crazy1943 · as 'Rags'
- Du Barry Was a Lady1943 · as Charlie / Dauphin
- Whistling in Dixie1942 · as Chester Conway / Sylvester 'Lester' Conway
- Panama Hattie1942 · as Rags (as 'Rags' Ragland)
- Somewhere I'll Find You1942 · as Charlie
- The War Against Mrs. Hadley1942 · as Louie
- Maisie Gets Her Man1942 · as Ears Cofflin
- Sunday Punch1942 · as 'Killer' Connolly
- Born to Sing1942 · as 'Grunt'
- Whistling in the Dark1941 · as Sylvester
- Ringside Maisie1941 · as Vic
- Hats and Dogs1938